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Choosing the right API Connect Portal: Consumer Catalog, Developer Portal, or full CMS?

By Chris Dudley posted 02/18/26 08:38 AM

IBM API Connect v12.1 introduces more options when it comes to your Developer portal. There are now 4 different options to choose from, each of them valid for certain scenarios and each with their own pros and cons.

Those options are:

Consumer Catalog
Developer Portal
CMS Portal
Headless Portal

To help guide you through the decision making process and to list the advantages and disadvantages of all the options Chris Philips and I have written a guide of when to use each portal.

It can be found here:

https://chrisphillips-cminion.github.io/apiconnect/2026/02/18/apic-developer-portal-vs-cms.html

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